Category: Recipes

  • Homemade Taco Seasoning

    Adjust the cumin to increase the heat. We’ve only used this on chicken, so I’m not sure how well it works on beef. Let me know! TACO SEASONING Makes enough for over 6 lbs of meat. Ingredients: 6 T (3/8 c) Chili Powder 4 T (1/4 c) Garlic Powder 6 T (3/8 c) Dried Minced…

  • Garlic Parmesan Chicken

    Since I promised to repost it for folks, here’s my customized recipe for garlic parmesan chicken that I typed up a while ago. It involves a small amount of ‘winging it’, as does most of my cooking; whenever I try to quantify things exactly, it never turns out quite as good. Baked Garlic Parmesan Chicken…

  • Recipe: Creamy Chicken & Potatoes over Rice

    A simple yet amazingly good recipe.

  • Cooking: Chicken Tacos

    Every Saturday, I cook taco meat. It’s quick, can be used for a couple of meals, and is one thing that the boy will eat regularly.

  • The Post-Thanksgiving Blues

    Currently trying to wrangle some sort of order into our overstuffed house. The newest additions from Black Friday shopping didn’t help, although the fact that they were almost exclusively desired kitchen items makes pog happy. Added to our arsenal are now 2 cooling racks, a 7qt crockpot to add to our collection of a 3.5qt…

  • Pan-seared steak plus sauce

    This recipe is mostly derived from Alton Brown and Good Eats. Primarily the “Steak your Claim”, “Tender is the Loin”, and “Hitting The Sauce” episodes. I picked up some cheap red-tag steaks at Food Lion on Monday. Red tags simply mean the sell-by date is a day or two off, and the steak is going…

  • Creamed Corn Recipe

    This recipe is derived from what my grandmother (from my mom’s side of the family, aka Mommom) taught me about creamed corn. The credit primarily goes to her, with side credits to Alton Brown of Good Eats (where I’m positive I picked up the bowl-in-a-bowl idea for easier milking, and of course for getting me…

  • Pogle’s Favorite Garlic Spaghetti Sauce…now with meat!

    One of pog’s favorite stories is about home ec and the rather strong spaghetti sauce he made. The boy simply loves garlic. I started making homemade spaghetti sauce not long after we were married and it is still his favorite thing for me to make him. As for me, as picky as he is I’ll…